I would like to use my Linus box (a Shuttle 45G with SUSE 9.0 and a Terratec
Cinergy 600 TV card) as a TV program recorder, and have done some Google
searching for recorder programs. On a computer with Windows XP it was simple to
install and use ShowShifter, but the corresponding programs for Linus (MythTV,
Freevo, OpenPVR, DVR and VDR) seemed to be much more complex to install
according to the web texts I found. Seems it was necessary to download and
install various other multimedia software first, and then modify and recompile
the kernel - at least with SUSE.
Has anybody found a simple to install and use program?

In my complete SUSE 9.0 setup (on the Multimedia->TV menu) I found two programs
which easily allow me to watch TV programs nicely in x-windows, so I can't
imagine harddisk recording and playback should make the situation so much more
complicated.

I suppose kernel version 2.6 is becoming useful now, and as it is simpler to add
modules for such a microkernel, I suppose recompiling the kernel should become
unnecessary. Anybody who has found out about new 2.6-based configuration
methods?

I know there are Linux versions, like MythKnoppix, in which the TV recorder
program is preinstalled. But then I would have to dualboot between this little
TV-Linux and the fully featured SUSE 9.0 Professional, and I bought a spesial
Linux box to avoid this silly dualbooting!
I wonder if it is possible to insert the MythKnoppix kernel as the kernel in the
SUSE partition?

Or if I give MythKnoppix its own partition: I wonder if I could connect it to
the Start menu and the 4 GB software collection in the SUSE partition?


-- -- Olav Næss (Naess) olav.n@c2i.DROPTHISnet
-- -- Bergen, Norway

olav.n@c2i.net (Olav Naess) writes:

Sure is.

Whoever told you that? Find him and give him a good spanking for
spreading such lies. Linux 2.6 is in no way fundamentally different
from 2.4. Many things have been improved or rewritten, such as the
scheduler and block IO layer, but the overall design remains more or
less the same.

--
Måns Rullgård
mru@kth.se

Olav Naess wrote:


MythTV. If you can follow directions, you can install it.



-WD

Olav Naess wrote:
fftv only uses gtk2 for GUI and tcron for power-on/off scheduled recording.


--
My projects:
http://fftv.sourceforge.net
http://tcron.sourceforge.net
http://www.csie.nctu.edu.tw/~cp76/gcb

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On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 23:31:46 GMT,
Will Dormann <wdormann@yahoo.com.invalid> wrote:
SUSE typically has problems with QT, they munge the package. Try
compiling the QT3.1 stuff before doing MythTV.

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--
Jim Richardson http://www.eskimo.com/~warlock
Take responsibility for your actions, put a lawyer out of buisness.

Jim Richardson wrote:
Anything on a Usenet post that isn't directly concerned with the topic at
hand belongs in a proper signature confined to the 4 lines below the
delimiter.

If you'all wish to use PGP on the Usenet, put it in your headers, please.

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On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 20:07:09 GMT,
MLR <ffff@gggg.rrrr> wrote:
Exactly how do you put the pgp sig in the headers? is there some sort of
RFC for that?

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--
Jim Richardson http://www.eskimo.com/~warlock
"Computers may be stupid, but they're always obedient. Well, almost always."
-- Larry Wall (Open Sources, 1999 O'Reilly and Associates)

On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 20:07:09 GMT, MLR <ffff@gggg.rrrr> wrote:

Oh my GOD! Alan Connor part 2 - the return of the twit.



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On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 14:29:34 -0800, Jim Richardson wrote:

Well, see, you have to use this new-fangled telepathic version of PGP
that Alan has written (as a shell script, of course). To download and
install it, you have to think *really hard*.

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On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 10:34:19 GMT,
Ed Murphy <emurphy42@socal.rr.com> wrote:
*ROFL*

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--
Jim Richardson http://www.eskimo.com/~warlock
Quantum mechanics: The dreams stuff are made of.

["Followup-To:" header set to comp.os.linux.misc.]
On 2004-01-11, Olav Naess <olav.n@c2i.net> wrote:

If you only want to record something you can use my own script (configure
the frequencies according to your area. mencoder comes with mplayer):

#!/bin/bash

if [ $# != 3 ]
then
echo "Usage: $0 channel time duration"
exit 1
fi

CHANNEL=$1
TIME=$2
DURATION=$3

OUTPUT="tv.`date +%Y%m%d%H%M`.avi"

if [ $TIME != "now" ]
then
h=`date +%H`
m=`date +%M`
s=`date +%S`

H=`echo $TIME | awk -F: '{print $1}'`
M=`echo $TIME | awk -F: '{print $2}'`
S=`echo $TIME | awk -F: '{print $3}'`

seconds=`echo "$H * 3600 + $M * 60 + $S - $h * 3600 - $m * 60 - $s" | bc`

if [ $seconds -lt 0 ]
then
seconds=`echo "$seconds + (3600 * 24)" | bc`
fi

echo Sleeping until $TIME ...

sleep $seconds
fi

case $CHANNEL in
cnn)
FREQ=238.250
;;
mtv)
FREQ=245.250
;;
arte)
FREQ=126.250
;;
rtl)
FREQ=217.250
;;
rtl2)
FREQ=62.250
;;
bbc)
FREQ=189.250
camera)
;;
*)
echo Unknown channel
exit 1
;;
esac

if [ $CHANNEL = "camera" ]
then
mencoder -tv on:input=1:driver=v4l:width=480:height=360 -o $OUTPUT -ovc lavc -oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr:br=64 -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=900 -endpos $DURATION

exit $?
fi

mencoder -tv on:driver=v4l:width=320:height=240:freq=$FREQ -o $OUTPUT -ovc lavc -oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr:br=64 -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=900 -endpos $DURATION

exit $?



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